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To Julie Sinai, a “policy junkie” who recently ended a nine-year stint as Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates’ chief of staff, the time was right for a return to education, which she believes “is under siege right now.”
Campus news archive
Campus celebrates Black History Month
February 22, 2012: The annual monthlong commemoration of African American contributions to American society draws to a close with a series of events.
Berkeley Law teams win awards in major advocacy competitions
February 22, 2012: Two Berkeley Law teams bested hundreds of competitors to advance to the finals at major advocacy competitions this winter — the National Moot Court Competition and the American Bar Association Employment Law Trial Advocacy Competition.
Social Welfare emeritus James Leiby, 89
February 22, 2012: School of Social Welfare Professor Emeritus James Leiby, a faculty member since 1961, passed away at his home in Berkeley at age 89.
Weekend Occupy Cal activities end peacefully
February 21, 2012:
Two tents were put up on an International House lawn near campus and about 100 protestors marched across campus over the weekend, but all events ended peacefully.
Feb. 27 campus memorial to honor former chancellor I. Michael Heyman
February 16, 2012:
A public memorial honoring the life of I. Michael Heyman, the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27, at the International House, located in the southeast corner of the UC Berkeley campus.
Be vigilant global ‘netizens,’ not passive ‘users,’ Internet scholar-activist urges
February 15, 2012: How do we protect civil liberties, privacy and even the character of democracy in a networked world where private interests control much of the digital real estate? Scholar-activist Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked, covers fertile ground in a talk at the School of Information.
Guess which West Coast campus tops ‘politically active’ list
February 15, 2012: UC Berkeley is one of the three most politically active college campuses in the nation, according to the “next-generation news and politics” website Policymic. From its “iconic protest of the Vietnam War in the 1960s” to today’s Occupy Cal
movement, Berkeley is a place where “political fervor reaches far beyond the norm,” it says.
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At subdued Boalt Hall forum, Nov. 9 protest clash gets a hearing
February 14, 2012: A Police Review Board forum drew a sparse crowd, but elicited powerful testimony from students, faculty and others who said they were victims of, or witnesses to, police violence during November’s Occupy Cal protests.
UC president to hold March 2 web chat
February 13, 2012: Faculty and staff are invited to participate in web chat with President Mark Yudof, set for noon to 1 p.m., Friday, March 2. Topics to be covered include state funding for UC, the Working Smarter Initiative and recent campus protests.
Student coalition, chancellor urge overturn of Prop. 209
February 13, 2012: A multicultural student coalition that includes students from UC Berkeley is calling for the repeal of Proposition 209, which outlawed affirmative action programs in the state’s public agencies. Chancellor Birgeneau said he is giving his “full personal support” to the group’s initiative to promote racial equality in public higher education in California.
Registration opens for Berkeley summer camps
February 13, 2012: Swimming or science, writing or gardening, skateboarding or racking up college credits, there’s a lot of fun and learning woven into Berkeley’s summer camp offerings for kids. Registration/applications are already open for some.
Send your valentine a singing ‘gram
February 13, 2012: For Valentine’s Day, student members of UC Choral Ensembles will deliver singing “Valentine grams” — two songs, a rose and a personalized card — starting at $20.
With a foothold at Berkeley, ‘engaged scholarship’ goes where it’s needed 
February 8, 2012: Urban forester Lara Roman, a Berkeley grad student, is conducting multi-year research designed to help a Sacramento tree-planting program maximize cooling shade for the area’s hot summers. “Engaged scholarship” like Roman’s, increasingly popular with students, is part of the campus’s DNA. New forms of institutional support are helping it flourish.
Solving the Brueghel ‘imbroglio’ with modern, digital tools
February 7, 2012: Thanks to a grant from CITRIS, associate art professor Elizabeth Honig is employing some decidedly 21st century digital tools to help sort out a controversy surrounding Brueghel scholarship.
Birgeneau enlists students in federal-funding push
February 6, 2012: BERKELEY — In a talk to the Graduate Assembly Thursday evening, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau called for intensified student advocacy for his proposed public-private funding model, which would redirect federal dollars to replace revenue lost through state budget cuts. Under the chancellor’s plan, which is modeled on Berkeley’s successful Hewlett-Packard fund-matching endowment program, the federal government would redirect $1 [...]
City of Berkeley lauds zero-waste stadium initiative
February 6, 2012: At a Feb. 4 basketball game, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates presented a city proclamation lauding Cal Athletics for its trial-run recycling efforts at Haas Pavilion this season, and “its commitment to the goal of achieving zero waste at California Memorial Stadium” when that facility reopens this fall.
Long on the move, Bishop Berkeley finds a home at Doe
February 2, 2012: An 1873 portrait of the campus’s namesake, in storage for 15 years, will hang permanently in the Heyns Room of Doe Library. The painting by John Weir is part of the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum.
Pauley forum opens dialogue on UC’s response to campus protests
February 1, 2012: Part of UC’s “Looking Forward” project, Pauley Ballroom was the scene of some genuine dialogue between Berkeley students and university administrators on the subject of the campus’s response to November’s Occupy Cal protests.
Berkeley’s writing requirement? Bold vision, endless revision
January 31, 2012: College Writing Programs, or CWP, has come a long way from its 19th-century origins, when students were schooled in Subject A, “Oral and Written Expression.” The 21st-century Berkeley program offers more than 20 courses in everything from public speaking, creative nonfiction and travel writing to new media.
Officials successfully conclude Strawberry Creek cleanup effort
January 31, 2012: Authorities announced today (Wednesday, Feb. 1) the successful conclusion of diesel cleanup efforts at Strawberry Creek.
Police Review Board update
January 30, 2012: A campus Police Review Board report on the November 2011 protests will be delayed beyond the original Jan. 31 deadline, PRB chair Jesse Choper said in a letter to the Chancellor. (PDF)
Campus announces new student conduct policy
January 30, 2012:
After more than a year of review and study, campus officials announced today (Monday, Jan.30) that a new Berkeley Campus Code of Student Conduct has been approved and will go into effect starting Feb. 1.
A new Lower Sproul, long a dream, is taking shape 
January 30, 2012: The long-desired makeover of Lower Sproul Plaza is finally taking shape, and it’s the students who made it happen. Plans and architects’ renderings show a light-filled area that’s open, inviting and bustling with activity 24/7 — the true and beating heart of student life on campus. Take a look at the new Lower Sproul.
How Berkeley students made the new Lower Sproul happen
January 30, 2012: It took a lot of hard work, persistence and a big vote to breathe life into the Lower Sproul project, but Berkeley students proved up to the job.
California native-plant classic gets a 21st-century makeover 
January 30, 2012: For California botany, The Jepson Manual is the authoritative reference book. Now the super-sized tome has been revised to incorporate a wealth of new knowledge about the state’s huge diversity of native plants. Scholars and staff at the Jepson Herbarium oversaw its 2nd edition, published by UC Press.
Haas to launch UC Summer Institute for undergrads from Historically Black Colleges
January 25, 2012:
The Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders, or SIEML, will take place annually at one of six UC business and management schools.
Lab picks Richmond Field Station for a second campus
January 23, 2012: The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, bursting at the seams of its home next door to UC Berkeley, announced Monday that it has picked the University of California’s bayside Richmond Field Station as the site of its second campus. The lab expansion will have benefits for Berkeley, Chancellor Birgeneau says.
Occupy Cal library protest ends
January 22, 2012:
Campus officials and faculty leaders reached an agreement Saturday evening with Occupy Cal protesters who had been conducting a ‘study-in’ at the Anthropology Library in Kroeber Hall.
UC’s green investments pay off
January 20, 2012: The University of California is saving $32 million a year on energy and remains the higher-education leader in adopting green-building standards. Those achievements and others are outlined in the “2011 UC Annual Report on Sustainable Practices.”
